[OT] I can't belive this can be happen ????????

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

Huh?  Not even SCO is saying this.  They're saying (in particular) that 
since IBM spent their own R&D funds on features for their own UNIX that 
adding those features to Linux, so it can support their own hardware--they 
are violating their contract with SCO.

They are also apparently claiming that even if the code is totally not 
shared, that if a system works like UNIX it is a copy of UNIX and thus 
violates their IP.  BSD might be shielded from this by the earlier 
lawsuit--but it might not be, as the earlier suit was a) settled and b) 
sealed.  So writing around offending code (for developers) or migrating to 
BSD (for users) isn't necessarily protection.

At 02:15 PM 7/23/03 -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote:
>The only reason Linux has developed so fast is the very reason it is in
>peril now. They were given, or appropiated, complicated chunks of code 
>taht took
>others years and more $$ than the whole Linux kernal cost from start to 
>R&D the
>code plus access to the hardware needed to test and develop it. The Linux
>community could not have done JFS or NUMA on its own, not and remained a 
>viable
>timely alternative. Remove that and what happens to Linux kernal?



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